FOSTER, Addison Gardner, a Senator from Washington; born in Belchertown, Hampshire County, Mass.,
January 28, 1837; moved to Oswego, Kendall County, Ill., and attended the common schools;
moved to Wabasha County, Minn., and engaged in the grain and real estate business; auditor and
surveyor of Wabasha County; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1873 and engaged in the lumber
business; moved to Tacoma, Wash., in 1888 and continued in the lumber business; also engaged
in coal mine operations and railroad construction; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1905; was not a candidate for reelection;
chairman, Committee on Coast and Insular Survey (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses),
Committee on Geological Survey (Fifty-eighth Congress); resumed the lumber business at
Tacoma, Wash.; retired from active business pursuits in 1914 and resided in Tacoma until his
death January 16, 1917; interment in Tacoma Cemetery.